IBM* Rational* Software provides a comprehensive suite of tools to help you manage business-application software, including tools for virtually all System i* customers. While the Rational brand is well known for its application-development tools, it also focuses on the management of business applications.
IBM Rational tools can help improve the overall effectiveness of managing your business systems regardless of whether you develop applications in-house extensively, occasionally with a focus on extensions to vendor software or utilize a third-party vendor to handle all customization and changes to commercially supplied software.